Plate XLVIIL 



THE EUROPEAN BRISTLE FERN (Trichomas radicans). 



TRICHOMANES, Unnam. 



Ctwfas of Spore-awes enclosed within extra-marginal tubular or urn-shaped mroluvrw, 

 which are of the same texture a$ the frond. &jmt4 -m*<\* obliquely compressed 

 with a transverse ring, sessile around the base of the columnar receptacles, 

 bursting vertically. Receptacles (extra-marginal extensions of the veins) five 

 within the involucres, filiform, more or less exserted. Vwm disunited at their 

 extremities, simple or forked. 



T. sadicahs; fronds |M*llncido*membranaccou8, ovatodanceolate, or triangular-ovate, 

 tri-quadri-pimiatifid ; the rachis everywhere, and the upper part* Or the whole. 

 of the stij>cs winged ; ultimate segments linear, entire or obtusely bifid ; 

 involucres cylindrical, scarcely two-lipped, solitary in the axils of the upper 

 segments, mow or less margined or winged ; caudox long, creeping; lomentose. 



TutCMOUAmi aumcofo, Starts, JTom MU Ow/r^ iiL 1736; Sjwyui* Fttk**, 143. IFi'Mmo*, 

 fytwim HMfftVff, ft *13. BMtt, fyetim FJi**m t L 1*3 (exel *yn, //y*. rwprrtrr Raddi, nnd 71 m**p# 

 WaJIsch), Hooter **JAr**U t Britisl Ft***, 5T0. fitah'n, Fteripfiptea Art&nwfev, jr. llfr iMi>£far, 

 JAmim! tf ItritUk /Wflay, 41& Mart. lhtJU*h o/ IJritUk tf™, 1<MK AYmw, Uutorj tf BritUk 

 Frm, 8 od. 2K3, Stonrty, &r*ttf Great £rit*i*,72 t U 11. &>r«*M tfr^«J RjtfA^ ft. 1W. iVM 



TuciOUuntt irwioivu. ffWAii*?, %™ J>tau*OTAt, r, Gil. ^rajrl, %t//M iVfeKf""* *fc ML 



TmmoMim wmqtmpm, Sm*tx t Rt<f cyrfgwrd*, Art. ma*™^ 



Twcihwuvm munora; 4>mj*r a ^ nptMii*m t w, iat>. 



TniutouAm uiievm^^^ $niiK£*ft** ftm, fr. 31L iw, 



//jw^ayttivw. lfc Jctaitft/, JTtvtf /few. all. 

 Tftiaioiusi:* ALurw t fl. Br*** t Pn4. ffrr* AW//otfW<>.l^ iuob*. ffaltr, Ftera £on^wnw f iv. t. 53, 

 Tmciioiuxm rfXIMTUOI. //***««. J-Twm -faj/iV*. 401. 2fof*«, K/*r* 2trit***iar, GO, (- 30. 

 Trkiwvim-l ruBnonrv ( lVaUi& t Ct tatty ** t 165. 



TWCB6U3TU WA»m, i/*rf*y. FiJmwm (toe**, (t. 0, ad. Ijn)- 



Thichomam* nurausril, IlmmUdt, Jfoapfuf, H K**tK M* G**. Pfa/fflw, L IB ; according; to Spitnfpl, 



TllcnoilASM AldMOCVM. Sitkr, Syaopri* Fifoum, 1U1; according to lloolcr. 



HrUEmtHTUra AUT^ ( SmUI, E*$U*% faUny, Xi. U HIT. mttJnn*, 8p#t*4 Phtf+rvn, v. 526, 



IlnucrorafLWJi lCSiiuoam*ft.S*fil, FWa Bnt***h*, in. 114S, 



l>lO»OOMM» ALXTtJI. /Jrvftffcr; according lo HooW. 



Kw. Akdhewsii; fronds narrow lanceolate-ovate; primary divisions narrow, and, as well 

 as the secondary . distant; involucres immersed; receptacles much elongated, 



Trkiiomahw mtueixa, p, AlDllftU, JIwr* t If*»JMi of BetiUk Arftt, <d, 1 ( 130. Stwm**, Jii*t*rj 



p/Mttok Fer** t U #d. ( 20% wilt a Igutv. 

 Tmicitouisi* mctottm, r. Amiwm, AVim«i p ilnYta Fcrnw, 2 tJ.,315. 

 T«icuoMisw Anscwvo, 2fmmn, ItritUK Fertu, 2 c4 1 i, 

 TkiCKOWAMFJi HiETivniri^itAnimn^ Utmfrt^ Fnmrif* Jtulpi* of ItriltiS Fer**, 5 **], 67, 



EXPLANATION OF THE PLATE, 



I'uti: XI-V1IL— ^ TuCHOHAHn pUbtOurs; frotu KilUm.M. K.-rr* ; />. ,Vw^ B, fn>m Killin-r^, cultivate, ; »r, JVuny. 

 C p TbICHOUATX* pUJHCAXH AypftEW«ii; from ito *oullj,*p#t of Irrbud j IK JW™ 



HABITAT,— Tho TricbomflBf* it not iiw fotuxi in Kn^Lunt, tLou^h ii fon&wlf grew at J^llWik, rn^r llin^y, Yoriubiiv t 

 ■ "i--:i . in 173S, ]tollo» p nhi> certainly figurcj it, »lalo» itwai growing ** in iiWty ;" an*) nht T iv l l)o*1p'MiUU i * k " in \7^'J, 

 1 found" tho ipwmcn AkuivA lu prttotri liabitat* aro ccalinc^ to lhi*>alii***fltof IrvUnJ. wbtro, in Iho rocky 

 gletu, c»v« T w\d Rivinod of tlit* couniii** of tWk, Kerry, anil Wicktovr, it U met wit I* t»l unf(vijventty p and kotcLIedh 

 Ui a tno*t luiiirivnt conditio. The Turk 31ountaut t KilUrory, m one of Ibo mo»t coIobrtUd Hal ion*, «iul J*rw it 

 Mtrnik to in aJlitndo of 1500 fed. Wo *ro £ii*W»(oil lo Mr, P, >roo«» and to Mr. V, Attdmn for magniflwot 

 apcviaica» f to irhkb cn-n oux tmiplo [»rtgo faikd to do jtialioP, 



GKOGKArnKTAL I)ISTHM1UTI0N\— Attaining apnarvntly iU prewnt tiortlwm limit in Ireland, thi* Fem i« a^niti iml 

 irilb in profuaion tu tho Africau ialandaoV tho Atlantic Oociu: ToncriftV.tbo Conan>«. 3tod«*im, and llu* Aioiw, 

 Id A iin it la found in NejoJ and SilLim, w1k4v it avuaoa ft more finoty-dividcd form, and an outline resembling 

 .4n*t/w4U; alio in Kluviya, Bootan, and Mt-r^tiS, in iho Kail Tndwv, It oeeuta again in tbo \V«t lDdiea: Jamaica, 

 UkrUttfcpOj taAlil«Btt(tni]l«l«tt4or form); in Wctico, I'anama.iNcwarcnad^and Vwictucb (Inrjo, and mucJi 

 ditided) t iu Brazil i in tbi* Uala|Tapj4 T and tho S«4rty J»!**. A varirty, will* almoit wwilc froud« and « aprcailius 

 intolucrc, U found in llraril, Kpuulor, Mcit^o, and Ibo Sand«icb lalea ; and MTtfraJ Otbcr form*, jwobably rarktio, of 



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